> Wouldn't the major city names be less prone to these kinds of disputes? > Surely there will be times when some will be disputed but I don't see > it happening so often as to be a major problem.
This is what the Olson DB does. > Lastly, I'm for some reason or another not worried if people like the > government of India want to ban the use of the DateTime module... > It's Open Source, let them distribute their own modified version. > Any graphical UIs (like the RH one) will learn to just use a map without > borders. Putting the cities at the proper lat/long is the important thing. The RedHat TZ selector only lists city names and does not display country borders. > In the not-so-distant future I see there will be a need to be able to > localize > these mappings. I see no reason that the mappings need to match from one > locale > to the next. If some country wants to provide their own local world view > I see no reason it can't be released right alongside the others. > While I didn't imagine it used for this purpose, this is another example > where allowing people to publish modules that others can just "plugin" to > get different mappings becomes useful. Somehow I don't see supporting warped world views as a critical goal. -J --
